I Can't Be a Bride Anymore
A 1999 painting by the artist Yuko Tatsushima that internet creepypasta paired with the poem Tomino's Hell and called cursed.
Yuko Tatsushima's site dates the painting, titled あたしはもうお嫁にはいけません in Japanese, to 29 September 1999. Wikipedia describes it as a scratched red and black image of a woman with a stretched neck. Wikipedia also reports that Tatsushima has said she paints herself in most of her works, and that they often take up borderline personality disorder, sexual abuse and nuclear destruction.
Wikipedia says the painting became attached to Tomino's Hell, a poem by Yaso Saijō from his 1919 collection Sakin, along with claims that the painting was cursed, although the poem and the painting were made independently. Arya Nanda, writing in Polyester, says the image spread online as a creepypasta called Tomino's Hell, which called it cursed and drew a wave of attention to the artist.
The curse claim comes from that creepypasta. None of the sources records Tatsushima endorsing it.
"A 1999 painting titled I Can’t Be a Bride Anymore by Yuko Tatsushima became attached to one of Yaso Saijō's poems from a 1919 poetry collection named "Sakin" (砂金), titled "Tomino's Hell",[23] with claims that the painting was cursed, even though the painting and the poem were created independently. The red and black scratched painting depicts a figure of a woman with an elongated neck. Tatsushima has stated that most of her paintings are self-portraits, and often incorporate themes of sexual abuse, nuclear holocaust, and borderline personality disorder.[24]"
- あたしはもうお嫁にはいけません (I Can't Be a Bride Anymore), Yuko Tatsushima (立島夕子), 立島夕子の地下要塞 (artist's own site)
- Detailing Yuko Tatsushima's Canvas: The Artist Behind the Inspiration for the Internet's Scariest Creepypastas, Arya Nanda, Polyester